I said my stack of unread books was about to reach to orbit of Pluto? Here is pictorial proof.

( Cut for lots of books )

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Seth Godin about what libraries are for, where they come from, and how they stay important in the digital age.

Money quote:

"The librarian isn't a clerk who happens to work at a library. A librarian is a data hound, a guide, a sherpa and a teacher. The librarian is the interface between reams of data and the untrained but motivated user."

Just added a thinkgeek.com address to my email address book because I had set up an email alert for the scratching post bigfluffball pointed me to, and found I had several addresses for one of my favourite science fiction authors in there, from when I had to interview him ( Read more... )

This year, my Little Lady (who loves 'Harry Potter', has read all the books and seen all the movies, so is no stranger to magic and scary/serious things) gets the first dose of PTerry and GNeil for Christmas ( Read more... )

The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books listed here. Bold those books you've read in their entirety, italicize the ones you started but didn't finish or read an excerpt.

( Books books books! )

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As of today, I am officially a published author of short fiction in an anthology. Which is up on Amazon.com and printed on dead trees, so it counts.

I officially crossed over.

Thanks to wiebke for kicking that almost-dead project back to life!

The two serious appointments/things to go to this month (apart from my vacation, of course!) all had to happen on the same day ( Read more... )